Tabby is a highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH and serial client for Linux, macOS and Windows. Formerly known as Terminus, it combines local shell sessions and remote connections in a single interface with tabs, split panes and reusable profiles.
The application is designed for users who regularly move between local terminals, SSH hosts and serial devices. Sessions can be arranged in nested panes, restored between launches and customised with themes, colour schemes, fonts and keyboard shortcuts. Tabby also provides an encrypted store for SSH secrets and configuration.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- A VT220-compatible terminal with additional extensions.
- Multiple nested split panes and tabs that can be placed on any side of the window.
- Optional dockable Quake-style console with a global spawn hotkey.
- Progress detection and desktop notifications when processes finish.
- Bracketed paste support and warnings for multiline paste operations.
- Configurable shell profiles, shortcuts and multi-chord shortcuts.
- Integrated SSH and Telnet client with connection management.
- SSH port forwarding, jump hosts, agent forwarding and login scripts.
- Integrated serial terminal with multiple profiles and automatic reconnection.
- Serial input modes including text, readline and byte-by-byte operation.
- Text and hexdump serial output modes, Zmodem transfers and non-standard baud rates.
- Direct Zmodem file transfer to and from SSH sessions.
- Full Unicode support, including double-width characters.
- Clickable URLs, IP addresses and filesystem paths.
- Custom themes and colour schemes, with CSS-based visual customisation.
- Extensible through JavaScript plugins.
- Integrated encrypted storage for SSH secrets and configuration.
- SSH, SFTP and Telnet functionality is also available through a web client.
Website: tabby.sh
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Developer: Eugene Pankov and contributors
License: MIT License
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